ATLANTA — The footprints of a journalist, a boxer and a crooner were among those added Monday to the International Civil Rights Walk of Fame near the church where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. preached.

"The rains will come and wash away the debris, and the winds will come and just blow away the trash, but your footprints and contributions will stand forever," walk creator Xernona Clayton told the inductees.

This is the fourth group to be inducted into the Walk of Fame in the plaza of the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site near downtown Atlanta. The walk, established in 2004, now includes 50 pairs of footprints, marked in granite, from people who organizers call the "foot soldiers" of the civil rights movement.

The walk is a partnership between the Trumpet Awards Foundation and the National Parks Service.

One of this year's inductees, the Rev. Otis Moss Jr., who worked closely with King and his father, told the crowd about a photograph of the slain civil rights leader showing a hole worn through the bottom of his shoe.

"They were worn out marching for a better day," Moss said, standing in front of a glass case with pairs of shoes from each of his fellow honorees.